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The Orville is an American science fiction comedy-drama [1] [2] [3] television series created by Seth MacFarlane, who also stars as the protagonist Ed Mercer, an officer in the Planetary Union's line of exploratory space vessels in the 25th century. It was inspired primarily by the original Star Trek and Next Generation eras, both of which it ...
A cockpit or flight deck [1] is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. Cockpit of an A380. Most Airbus cockpits are glass cockpits featuring fly-by-wire technology. 1936 de Havilland Hornet Moth. Note the bifurcated split stick control column.
Flight attendant or Cabin Crew, is the crew member responsible for the safety of passengers. Historically during the early era of commercial aviation, the position was staffed by young 'cabin boys' who assisted passengers. [15] Cabin boys were replaced by female nurses, originally called 'stewardesses'. The medical background requirement for ...
March 8: Raymonde de Laroche of France becomes the world's first woman to earn a pilot's license. [17] August 29: Marthe Niel of France becomes the world's second woman to earn a pilot's license. [17] September 3: Hélène Dutrieu of Belgium is the first woman in the world to fly with a passenger.
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Pilot (. Suits. ) Harvey Specter ( Gabriel Macht) and Mike Ross ( Patrick J. Adams) meet for the first time. " Pilot " is the pilot episode of the American legal comedy-drama Suits, which premiered on USA Network in the United States on June 23, 2011. The episode was written by series creator Aaron Korsh and was directed by Kevin Bray.
In aerobatics, the cobra maneuver (or just the cobra), also called dynamic deceleration, among other names (see Etymology), is a dramatic and demanding maneuver in which an airplane flying at a moderate speed abruptly raises its nose momentarily to a vertical and slightly past vertical attitude, causing an extremely high angle of attack and momentarily stalling the plane, making a full-body ...
Douglas Bader. Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, DL, FRAeS ( / ˈbɑːdər /; 21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. He was credited with 22 aerial victories, four shared victories, six probables, one shared probable and 11 enemy aircraft damaged.